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Timothy Wolfe Bretl
A new and improved video of LEMUR IIb climbing. [MPEG-1]
Click to watch a preliminary, first-ever demonstration of a real robot climbing through a real (well, climbing-wall style) vertical environment consisting of arbitrarily placed holds. (Note: the movie has been edited and sped-up for ease of viewing, but it was taken in a single run and all of the motion planning was online and autonomous.) [MOV]
This planar robot can climb through a vertical environment using the motion-planning algorithms I have developed. Click to view a movie. [AVI] [MPEG-1]
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